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Spectre: a standalone construct

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Computer security

attacks that trick a processor into speculatively executing instructions that leak secrets through cache side channels.

In computer security, Spectre refers to attacks that trick a processor into speculatively executing instructions that leak secrets through cache side channels. This meaning comes from Kocher (2019) in 2019 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP).[1]

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References

Kocher, P., Horn, J., Fogh, A., Genkin, D., Gruss, D., Haas, W., Hamburg, M., Lipp, M., Mangard, S., Prescher, T., Schwarz, M., & Yarom, Y. (2019). Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution. 2019 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). https://doi.org/10.1109/sp.2019.00002

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